Hi Baz
This looks like you have had the problem for a while and may have got it fixed. Anyway if anyone else has had a similar problem, like me I got an engineer to look at the problem and it was down to the heating element or the thermostat being broken (I wasn't listening that much). Because the water was not heating up, or not registering as being heated up the washing machine was waiting for the water temperature to increase. Because it would never happen the machine times out to 1 minute and keeps going forever. It was replaced by the engineer in about 10 minutes
John Brazier
July 2007